Talk with Helena Kennedy at 392RMEIL393

As part of the Hay Festival 2013, 392RMEIL393 is hosting a talk with Baroness Helena Kennedy and Hani Shukrallah.

Baroness Helena Kennedy is a British barrister, broadcaster and Labour Member of the House of Lords. She was an avant-garde voice in the seventies and eighties, writing and broadcasting on the discrimination experienced by women in Law.

She was also a founding member of Charter 88, a constitutional reform group set up in 1988 in response to growing concerns about outdated British institutions. Her skills as a lawyer and social reformer have taken her into many different fields of activity, making her especially committed to the arts. She will speak with Hani Shukrallah, journalist and author of “Egypt, The Arabs And The World: Reflections At The Turn Of The 21st Century”.